Contemporary Muslim Researcher's Approach in Hadith Studying: Hākim ‘Ubaysan Muṭayri

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maryam velayatikababian ¹

1 - Assistant Professor of the Department of Hadith Sciences, University of Quran and Hadith, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-01-14 Accepted : 2021-03-03 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: Orientalists, Salafis, Authority of Tradition, Writing and Compilation of Hadith, Hākim ‘Ubaysan Muṭairi, The Challenges of Orientalists,

Abstract :

Hākim Mutayri is one of the academic figures of the Islamic world with a Salafi approach who works in the two fields of Islamic studies and oriental studies. He has written several books. Since the study of political Islam is a top priority for him, in parallel with his scientific activities, he is more of an active and well-known political figure. He invites Muslims to the foundations of the political discourse of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Prophetic tradition, and the biography of the Righteous Caliphs, and is a staunch critic of the policies of Islamic rulers. Hadith and political issues are strongly intertwined in his works and it can be said that most of his political views and ideas are based on narrations. He claims that he has always been bound to mention authentic hadiths, and that he is concerned with the investigation of isnads, although his critics believe that the prevailing political tendency as an influential component has not been ineffective in his hadithic approach and how he cites the narrations. Apart from the above-mentioned cases, we see the clear reflection of the hadith in his works in the cases related to the narrative interpretation, the poetic hadith terminology, Narration related to Sunan al-Nabi (the traditions of the Prophet), and answering to the Orientalists on the subject of compiling the Sunnah. Extensive citations to the narrations are clearly visible in all these cases.